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prof.dr. S.M. García Blanco (Sonia)

Full Professor
TNW-ANP-IOS
Carré C4617
s.m.garciablanco@utwente.nl
+31534896104
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I started my career by studying Ingeniería Superior de Telecomunicación at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1999). I carried out my MSc thesis work at the Ion Lab at the IBM Almaden research center, in Almaden, California, and, after completing my PhD at the University of Glasgow (2003) and my post-doc at the University of Toronto (2003-2005), I worked for five years at the Institute National d'Optique (INO) in Québec City, Canada on wafer-level hermetic vacuum packaging of microbolometer detectors, advanced packaging and silicon micro-bench technology. I joined the University of Twente in 2010 and I am currently leading the Integrated Optical Systems (IOS) group, where we develop novel materials and integration technologies for Integrated Photonics. 

I am also the co-founder and CEO of Aluvia Photonics B.V., a start-up company spun-off from the IOS group to offer foundry services of photonics integrated circuits (PICs) operating down to ultraviolet wavelengths in our proprietary aluminum oxide (Al2O3) technology.

I am the mother of two amazing kids, Marco (9) and Elena (7), who give relevance to all that I do, and married to a very supportive husband. I love long-distance running and I am giving my first steps in the world of triathlon.

Expertise

  • Material Science

    • Waveguide
    • Tungstate
    • Al2O3
    • Laser
    • Silicon Nitride

  • Physics

    • Amplifier
    • Earth
    • Ion

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Publications

2024
Watt-class CMOS-compatible optical high power amplifier. Research Square Publications. Singh, N., Lorenzen, J., Wang, K., Gaafar, M., Sinobad, M., Francis, H., Edelmann, M., Geiselmann, M., Herr, T., Garcia-Blanco, S. & Kärtner, F.https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4602013/v1Parallel Sensing with Multiple Microrings on a Single Bus Waveguide, Article 7500105, 1-5. Zheng, Z., Hendriks, W. A. P. M., Garcia-Blanco, S. M. & Chang, L.https://doi.org/10.1109/JQE.2024.3386101Residual Stress Analysis of Thin Film Materials for Fabricating Suspended Low Stress Si3N4 Waveguides on SapphireIn 2023 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers 2023 (pp. 2086-2089). IEEE. Berenschot, E., Martinussen, S., Wang, K., García-Blanco, S., Tas, N. & Tiggelaar, R.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10516852Silicon photonics-based high-energy passively Q-switched laser, 485-491. Singh, N., Lorenzen, J., Sinobad, M., Wang, K., Liapis, A. C., Frankis, H. C., Haugg, S., Francis, H., Carreira, J., Geiselmann, M., Gaafar, M. A., Herr, T., Bradley, J. D. B., Sun, Z., Garcia-Blanco, S. M. & Kärtner, F. X.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-024-01388-0High on-chip gain spiral Al2O3:Er3+ waveguide amplifiers, 15527-15536. Bonneville, D. B., Osornio-Martinez, C. E., Dijkstra, M. & García-Blanco, S. M.https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.516705
2023
Exploring the surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activity of gold nanostructures embedded around nanogaps at wafer scale: Simulations and experiments, Article 101929. Lafuente, M., Muñoz, P., Berenschot, E. J. W., Tiggelaar, R. M., Susarrey-Arce, A., Rodrigo, S. G., Kooijman, L. J., García-Blanco, S. M., Mallada, R., Pina, M. P. & Tas, N. R.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmt.2023.101929Watt-class CMOS-compatible power amplifierIn 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023. IEEE. Singh, N., Lorenzen, J., Sinobad, M., Wang, K., Gaafar, M. A., Francis, H., Geiselmann, M., Herr, T., Garcia-Blanco, S. M. & Kärtner, F. X.https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10231735High energy passively Q-switched laser on a CMOS platformIn 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023. IEEE. Singh, N., Lorenzen, J., Sinobad, M., Wang, K., Liapis, A. C., Frankis, H., Gaafar, M. A., Haugg, S., Francis, H., Carreira, J., Geiselmann, M., Herr, T., Bradley, J., Sun, Z., Garcia-Blanco, S. M. & Kärtner, F. X.https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10231957Towards On-Chip Ultrafast Pulse AmplificationIn 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC) (pp. 1-1). Gaafar, M. a., Wang, K., Ludwig, M., Wildi, T., Sinobad, M., Lorenzen, J., Francis, H., Geiselmann, M., Kärtner, F. x., Garcia-Blanco, S. M., Singh, N. & Herr, T.https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO/Europe-EQEC57999.2023.10231611First near-UV hybrid integrated laser in the Al2O3 platformIn Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII, Article PC124240A. SPIE. Franken, C., Hendriks, W., Dijkstra, M., do Nascimento Jr., A., Winkler, L., van Rees, A., Mardani, S., Dekker, R., van Kerkhof, J., van der Slot, P., García Blanco, S. & Boller, K.https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2657253

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